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be a very stiff if not stupid affair__ I fear it will at least. It is going to rain too__ & I know I shall not be able to get things arranged as I would wish them. __ Friday I sewed all day at home__ Mollie & Martha went & finished arranging the school-room. School is to commence tomorrow, D. V.__ Yesterday I spent in house-cleaning_ and endeavoring to get my rooms into something like decent order. In the midst of our sound & fury Miss Bettie Searcy came to call. She & all of Dr. Reids family are to leave for the South next Thursday. They go to LaFayette Ala. They are very fortunate__ and I wish I was going too__ we would be out of the reach of the Yankees, who are sure to be in upon us here__ it is only a question of time. Bettie requested to use my name as a reference should she and Sophy enter upon teaching__ she also wanted the words of a song I had written in memory of those who were left on the battle-field low.__ Mollie had a letter from Jimmy last night__ he says another attempt will shortly be made on Vicksburg__ but that our Gibraltar is impregnable. He confirms the rumors of disaffection, desertion, & dying in the Yankee army opposite Vicksburg. No further news from the Northwest__ I think they will ultimately submit to the Conscription Bill__ there is no freedom now at the North. Lincoln is a dictator. Our independence depends now upon our steady front to the foe__ if God would in His goodness grant us a triumph at Vicksburg, & at Tullahoma__ we should have peace ere long. Oh! our Father remember us, and grant us this of thine especial favor!

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be a very stiff if not stupid affair__ I fear it will at least. It is going to rain too__ & I know I shall not be able to get things arranged as I would wish them. __ Friday I sewed all day at home__ Mollie & Martha went & finished arranging the school-room. School is to commence tomorrow, D. V.__ Yesterday I spent in house-cleaning_ and endeavoring to get my rooms into something like decent order. In the midst of our sound & fury Miss Bettie Searcy came to call. She & all of Dr. Reids family are to leave for the South next Thursday. They go to LaFayette Ala. They are very fortunate__ and I wish I was going too__ we would be out of the reach of the Yankees, who are sure to be in upon us here__ it is only a question of time. Bettie requested to use my name as a reference should she and Sophy enter upon teaching__ she also wanted the words of a song I had written in memory of those who were left on the battle-field low.__ Mollie had a letter from Jimmy last night__ he says another attempt will shortly be made on Vicksburg__ but that our Gibraltar is impregnable. He confirms the rumors of disaffection, desertion, & dying in the Yankee army opposite Vicksburg. No further news from the Northwest__ I think they will ultimately submit to the Conscription Bill__ there is no freedom now at the North. Lincoln is a dictator. Our independence depends now upon our steady front to the foe__ if God would in His goodness grant us a triumph at Vicksburg, & at Tullahoma__ we should have peace ere long. Oh! our Father remember us, and grant us this of thine especial favor!

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